The Poetry
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The poetry in View from the Lucky Hotel is structured under three headings. The poem ‘Waiting for Goya’ opens the book. In the second section, poems sit under the heading ‘Over the Water’. The third section has the same title as the book itself, ‘View from the Lucky Hotel’, and these twenty six poems are located in Vietnam.
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View from the Lucky Hotel
The poems below can be read as pdf files. Just click on the titles.
**Waiting for Goya**
‘Waiting for Goya’ won the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize 2007, Australia
www.island.mag.com/poetryprize/judges_report07.html
**Reading the City**
‘Reading the City’ is from a series of six poems that won 1st prize in the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award, Australia 2004 www.queenslandpoetryfestival.info/awards.htm
**At the Polite Pub**
‘At 'The Polite Pub’‘ was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize 2004, U.K.
www.bridportprize.org.uk
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‘Easy Riding with Thuy’ won a prize in the Barnet Arts Council, Poetry Awards, London, 2004 www.barnet.gov.uk/arts-council
**Multiplicities**
‘Multiplicities’ is from a series of poems that won 1st prize in the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award, Australia 2004
**A Defence of Humour**
‘A Defence of Humour’ won second prize in the Petra Kenney International Poetry Competition, UK, 2002 www.petrapoetrycompetition.co.uk
A few poems from the ‘Over the Water’ section of View from the Lucky Hotel
**Ashes of Violet**
‘Ashes of Violet’ won a prize in the Barnet Arts Council, Poetry Awards, London 2007
**The Caretaker**
In memory of Jacob Dudley 1891 – 1963
**Tasting the World**
A poem for Alexandra.
**Prospecting**
‘Prospecting’ was published in ‘Going Down Swinging’ #22, 2004
**On the Matter of Bed**
‘On the Matter of Bed’ was awarded in the Melbourne Poets Union Competition 2006
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